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The unusually warm weather around here lately makes me wonder if I could move some of my trees now. I never would have previously considered this in January but I have rarely had such warm weather in January either (69 degrees last saturday). What do y'all think? |
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- Posted by knottyceltic S/W Ontario 5b (My Page) on Fri, Jan 12, 07 at 17:49
I don't see why not. I'd do it if I had any to move at this time (and in this weather). Barb |
- Posted by nywoodsman (My Page) on Fri, Jan 12, 07 at 18:42
I've been transplanting small shrubs and trees from out of the woods,into my yard during this mild weather,while the ground remains unfrozen and the humidity high.I just make sure the roots of the transplants are protected from excessive freeze-thaw cycles and drying,during the winter, by mulching them with leaf litter after the move.This weather's been great for outdoor work but I'm begining to wonder whether I should be looking for plants from a more southern source in anticipation of climate change. |
Thanks Knotty and NYWoodsman. I too have been wondering if some more heat-tolerant plants will be in order. Maybe some plants that are more common in Maryland or Northern Virginia will be in order soon here in NY. I wonder weather my "winter-sown" seeds will be sufficiently cold stratified to germinate come spring? |
I have transplanted several species of trees and shrubs during warm winter weather with great success. Moving woody plants during winter allows many species to be moved bare-root without as much worry about drying out as during summer. The species I've moved during winter include serviceberry (amelanchier spp.), Red Cedar (Juniperus virgniana), Winterberry Holly (Ilex veticillata), Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), and a couple of viburnum species. The only difficulties I've had are with Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) which are hard to move at any season, but no more so in winter. I have also divided and transplanted many types of perennials and wildflowers while dormant. I think as long as you can dig in the ground it is safe to move plants. I always mulch heavily to try and protect the plants from too many freeze/thaw cycles after I have transplanted them. With evergreens I try to put a fence of lots of leaves around the plants to protect them from dessicating winds. All of the plants I am talking about have been pretty small, so this advice might not apply to larger plants. |
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It was easy for me to figure out a method for setting console colors in C++ using windows.h and std::cout. One such method is shown here:
HANDLE stdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); //get handle of console
CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO bufferInfo;
GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(stdout, &bufferInfo); //save current color scheme
SetConsoleTextAttribute(stdout, 0x4); //change console color
std::cout << "This is red text" << std::endl;
SetConsoleTextAttribute(stdout, bufferInfo.wAttributes); //restore old colors
Sure enough, when I run my program from a console window, the colors change as expected. The problem is, when this is run from an msbuild script, I use exec:
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When run from the msbuild script, the colors are not affected by the program. The text still outputs in the call to std::cout, but it's just the normal console window colors.
My guess is that the call to exec writes to stdout via different handle than STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE. Either that, or the msbuild exec sets its own console attributes. I've tried getting the parent console, but haven't had any luck.
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The National Institute of Technical Teacher Training and Research here has started developing the first skill development curriculum for the workforce in five industries. The content for at least 20 sets of courses has been given to the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) for final approval and implementation.
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According to S. Mohan, Director, NITTTR, there has been no prescribed curriculum to train the skilled workforce, although the Ministry of Labour has a curriculum, it was not designed on a scientific basic.
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He said the same approval was issued for the exams administered by the Independent Examinations Board (IEB).
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I just wanted to reaffirm this works. I did some sanitization a few weeks ago with the iodophor stuff, Im not sure how it is spelled. I still have it sitting in a bucket because I was told I can reuse this. Correct? Or is it only a certain type that lasts for quite awhile, like starsan. Thanks
iodophor does not last when left open to the atmosphere. The free iodine readily evaporates. If you kept it in a spray bottle or another covered container it would be ok. Starsan is an acid based sanitizer that does not evaporate, and can be stored open in a bucket.
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I wouldn't leave StarSan open for more than a day or so. When it turns cloudy, it's no good.
You can get maybe a days use out of iodophor....maybe a couple if it was mixed with distilled water and sealed between uses. When it loses the straw color it is toast. BUT you can "re-jump" it by adding more iodophor. There's a lot of great info in this thread, including the links to podcasts about the two most effective sanitizers we use, iodophor and starsan.Sanitizer Question.
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Open the door. Embrace this movie miracle. Let it in.
"Let Me In" is onscreen type o negative. It's a rare, delicate transfusion of European blood into an American movie production. It mixes torrents of stateside gore with the more refined, thoughtful plasma of European cinema. This approach seldom works. But in the respectful hands of director Matt Reeves, "Let Me In" combines two often-clashing flavors in ways that taste great together.
"Let Me In" is currently in wide release, spraying crimson onto multiplex screens across the nation. But Reeves' chilling film is actually someone else's undead, resurrected baby. With his 1984 novel "Let the Right One In" ("Låt den rätte komma in"), Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist initially conceived the film's melancholy, coming-of-age romance between a bullied boy and his connection-starved vampire muse.
Inevitably, the Swedish film industry came calling. Lindqvist donated several pints from the book's fertile blood bank to director Tomas Alfredson, whose previous resume consisted primarily of stage productions. Alfredson, who would later admit to "not being a horror fan," seemed ill equipped to transfer Lindqvist's dark vision from page to screen. But strange bedfellows often create fresh and potent synergies. Like a stealth grim reaper, "Let the Right One In" quietly slipped into theaters in 2008 to stun, terrify, and touch art-house audiences and critics alike.
It also exposed the shrill, stupid "Twilight," released the same year, as a saccharine fraud.
Alfredson's film follows Oskar (Kare Hedebrant), a fragile twelve-year old towhead enduring relentless bullying from some particularly nasty schoolyard peers. Oskar exists unseen and unwanted, residing in a depressing apartment also inhabited by his disengaged mother. Behind bedroom walls, this seemingly benign boy vents his anger at being unjustly victimized. Wielding a gleaming pocketknife, Oskar jabs at make-believe assailants, taunting these nonexistent foes with Travis Bickle-styled rants.
"You talking to me, piggy?"
Oskar spends lonely evenings in a snow-covered playground, fidgeting with a Rubik's Cube amidst jungle gym and teeter-totter. One evening, another lonely soul enters his outdoor sanctuary. Eli (Lina Leandersson) is a raven-haired, shoeless girl recently moved into Oskar's apartment complex. Why don't her feet get cold, and why does she smell funny? Eli is an odd duck, but she's pretty and bold, filling a void in Oskar's more tentative demeanor. Opposites attract. Soon, Eli grants Oskar his wish to "go steady."
But surrounding their tentative romance is a series of ghoulish murders. Adolescent boys are tied at the ankles, hung upside down, and drained of their blood. Grown men are assaulted in alleyways, throats ripped out and bodies frozen solid. More dead bodies are fished out of nearby lakes.
Is Eli, or the timid older man sharing her apartment, behind these ghastly crimes?
"Let the Right One In" is magic in its tone, imagery, and subtle attention to human yearning. It's both a delicate fairy tale, and a dive into horror depravity. It's a vampire film, all right, but one that jettisons the genre's familiar conventions. No garlic. No stakes. No clichés.
Alright, then. If "Let the Right One In" is a perfect ten, why the remake?
Most American retreads disrespectfully toss all subtlety to the wind, making a grab for the brand name but none of the details that made the original unique. But Reeves, whose underrated "Cloverfield" spun an overdone "Godzilla" premise into harrowing new directions, seems hell-bent on protecting all that's sacred about Alfredson's vision.
My favorite scene from "Let the Right One In" brings Oskar and Eli together for the first time. Standing beneath a pitch-black night sky in his icy playground comfort zone, Oskar senses a presence. The boy's keen intuition tells him to turn around. As Oskar's head, neck, and trunk swivel left, Alfredson's camera follows in a smooth, unbroken tracking shot. Both protagonist and viewer share in an eerie first-time image of the pale, barefoot Eli standing silently atop a jungle gym.
This slight shifting of the camera, from Oskar to Eli, has become one of horror's most iconic moments. Your typical Hollywood hack would miss it. But Reeves clearly understands the power of this seemingly minor ninety-degree turn. He nails it. Again. One could argue that he's stolen the shot….but if you're gonna steal, why not take from the best? Likewise, why fix what's not broken?
Another "Right One…" detail reveals the "hows" and "whys" behind a noxious bully's sociopathic behavior. Late in the film, we watch his interactions with an even more dangerous older brother. Shit rolls downhill. Tainted fraternal influence, it would seem, has taken its toll. The importance of this short, discreet scene isn't lost on Reeves, who wisely carries it over into his rendition.
Speaking of bullying, both films feel in their bones the awful horror of school stalking. Kids are cruel. And like the transference of evil from brother to brother, victims of abuse can – and oftentimes will – express their rage through tragic acts. During a conversation with Alfredson in 2008, the director told me, ""I have been in a similar situation when I was younger. When children are being bullied this way, I don't think they get sad and sentimental over it. They grow a lot of anger."
Reeves also remains true to the key ingredient from Alfredson's film: a sense of quiet. I once asked the director if there were cultural difference that made "Let the Right One In" feel so unique. "Maybe it's (an example of) our way to communicate through silence," he suggested. "That silence is also a way of speaking. Not answering a question can actually be a way of answering a question."
This philosophy is carried into "Let Me In." Words are allowed to suspend themselves and resonate. The grating jabber of most American movies is filtered out. When a key character proclaims, in tired resignation, "I'm nothing," it carries weight. In both films, words are actually worth something.
Reeves also beefs up the role of Eli's paternal adult caregiver, a weary hunter assigned the unenviable task of bleeding out corpses and harvesting blood. In the original film, Alfredson presents this mysterious manservant (played by Per Ragnar) as a grizzled, standoffish depressive who bleeds victims with the passive drudgery of a mechanic changing oil.
"Let Me In" provides considerably more dimension, courtesy of the superbly subtle Richard Jenkins. Unequaled for depicting repressed everymen, Jenkins plays Eli's resigned slave as an angry, tired soul who loves his master, while simultaneously resenting a lifetime of murderous servitude. "Maybe I'm getting sloppy," he confesses to Eli after a botched blood search. "Maybe I want to get caught."
And when he's on the prowl, hiding his stubbly, pockmarked face and cracked glasses with a wrinkled black trash bag, Jenkins is truly terrifying. Brandishing a duffel bag bulging with funnel, ether, razors, and acid, he's a seasoned veteran of murder. We know he must hunt. We know he will kill. We feel the dark ache of a man who has wasted and tainted his life through repeated acts of evil.
Okay. Let's review our notes. "Let Me In" succeeds by respecting the original film's crucial details, and by fleshing out supporting characters. But it also adds some spices of its own. An undercover cop (Elias Koteas) adds flair and shape to the narrative. We begin our filmic journey alongside this lawman, inside a swerving, careening ambulance. From this gripping opening scene, Koteas becomes the consistent thread that holds "Let Me In" together. In a pivotal final scene, he also symbolizes the voluntary loss of innocence – and a resignation to the tempting pull of evil.
Meanwhile, Reeves slices a few pieces of unwanted fat from the original film's script. A clumsy cat-attack scene, in which low-budget CGI doesn't quite make the jump from silly to scary, is jettisoned. Random, pub-inhabiting townies from the first film are re-invented as tenants from a single apartment complex. The whole narrative is more sleek and streamlined.
Alright, then. Details and supporting players aside, do the two leads do justice to their predecessors?
"Let the Right One In" hit casting pay dirt with Kare Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson. Their physical contrast is striking: Hedebrant is light personified, all pallid skin and straw-colored hair. A physical runt with the drowsy demeanor of a boy sleepwalking through life, Hedebrant plays Oskar as vulnerability incarnate. Meanwhile, Leandersson is the dark flipside. Her eyes are gray, her hair jet-black. Eli reflects a complex mix of strength and sadness. She's both aggressive and melancholy, the dynamic battery to illuminate Oskar's flat affect. There's irony here: Eli might be an supernatural being who lives through death, but she's infinitely more alive than Oskar's meek mortal.
In "Let Me In," the scene is switched from Sweden to Regan-era New Mexico. Oskar and Eli become Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Abby (Chloe Moretz). Frankly, this film's leads are better actors. But is this necessarily a good thing? Hedebrant and Leandersson created a natural, unforced chemistry that didn't come across as acting. The two new leads deliver lines in a more scripted, obvious manner. That's not to say that this is a bad thing. It's comparing apples to oranges…or different blood types.
As Owen, Kodi Smit-McPhee creates a more complex character than his predecessor. Owen is a creature of the senses. He nurtures sight as a peeping tom, aiming his bedroom telescope at the windows of unsuspecting neighbors. His sense of sound comes in handy for listening through walls and hearing the strange noises emanating from Abby's next-door apartment. Taste is satiated through Now and Later candy chunks. And during his first encounter with the malnourished, blood-craving Abby, he tells her, "You smell funny."
Owen's senses might be keenly developed, but he's lonely and love-starved. Reeves accentuates this by reducing Owen's parents to unseen human husks. His mother's face is never fully visible. His father's only interactions with Owen are icy, critical telephone calls. In "Let Me In," the protagonist is more tormented. While Oskar seemed insulated within in some protective, inexpressive cocoon, Owen is putting himself out there, taking a chance, trying to connect. But he's being rejected and abused at every corner. It's tragic.
Meanwhile, can Moretz effectively sink her fangs into the complex role of Abby, a vampiric Jekyll and Hyde who's both savior and slave-maker? Absolutely. Her tentative relationship with Owen carries all of the potent emotion that made the original touching. When Owen offers Abby one of his cherished Now and Later candies, Abby accepts it – knowing all along that vampire G.I. tracts aren't compatible with sweets. It's a gesture of how badly she wants to connect with this potential soul mate.
But is Abby really a soul mate – or soul stealer?
When Moretz satiates her need for teeth-in-neck nourishment, the attacks are sudden, sloppy, and brutal. Reeves milks a trick from Stanley Kubrick, framing Abby's post-murder expressions with an intensity that will make your flesh crawl. Think back to Kubrick killers like "Full Metal Jacket's" Gomer Pyle, or "The Shining's" Jack Torrance – downward eyes slowly rising in expressions of ecstatic evil. Moretz adds to this shrine of effectively satanic faces.
In the end, both films ask two disturbing questions with the same levels of skill, intensity, and imagination. Given the choice between the embrace of supernatural evil and the cruel rejection of humanity, which would you make? Meanwhile, as Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor once wrote, can one find happiness in slavery?
Abby and Owen might be dancing with the Devil. But film fans can rejoice in this heaven-sent miracle: an American remake that lives up to its foreign predecessor. Open the door, and savor its black magic spell.
Posted on October 4, 2010 in Features by KJ Doughton
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Felix Vasquez Jr. on Mon, 4th Oct 2010 6:51 pm
No thanks. I'm not interested in a remake of an already great movie.
El Jefe on Tue, 5th Oct 2010 11:54 am
No thanks, I'm not interested in yet another vapid "I won't watch it because it's a remake" comment.
Kenny Young on Tue, 5th Oct 2010 8:04 pm
The remake is better in every area except one, the original has a greater sense of tenderness, and ambiguity. It is this one thing, which in terms of the relationship is a big thing, that makes me not know which I like better.
KJ Doughton on Tue, 5th Oct 2010 9:11 pm
I agree with you that the sequel didn't quite capture the same bittersweet details that made the original relationship so unique. It could have let some of the courtship scenes linger a bit longer. Still, a fantastic re-make. And that car wreck is bloody brilliant.
Thomas E. Reed on Tue, 5th Oct 2010 11:37 pm
This has been one of the most highly praised remakes I've heard of in years. And yet…it got trounced at the box office this last weekend by The Social Network, a fictionalized biography of a corporate wonk, the modern-day equivalent of Edison the Man. Maybe horror has run its course for a while, and people are suffering vampire fatigue from all that overexposure.
Mark Bell on Wed, 6th Oct 2010 9:38 am
I don't think the remake was marketed very well. Early commercials made it seem more sinister than it is, and then the latest commercials turned it into a bully revenge plot. Despite having seen the original, and knowing what the film really was, even I was turned off by the advertising for it.
Chris Mack on Wed, 6th Oct 2010 10:36 am
I'm certainly intrigued. The one thing I have heard is that the remake didn't pick up on one of the lower hanging fruits in the Swedish version: the notion that Eli is from somewhere else, the suggestion that she has slightly semitic features – as this bears some significance in the closed culture, softly xenophobic Sweden of the early 80s. What of the New Mexico landscape. Can a similar theme be tapped into – even subtly? I don't think that this is insignificant – and points to some of the more enduring dimensions of the vampire genre.
Felix Vasquez Jr. on Wed, 6th Oct 2010 9:41 pm
@El Jefe: Copying and pasting someone's comment is pretty weak. Like this remake! Bazinga.
Tom Baker on Sun, 10th Oct 2010 12:02 pm
The remake looks promising and I will see it but like most remakes I wait for the DVD. I have only heard great things about the movie, though.
Arthur Ratnik on Sun, 10th Oct 2010 4:02 pm
I will download this movie for free. I consider the first movie a masterpiece and might treat the remake with an open mind if it didn't copy whole sequences and shots. I might not have even minded that if the filmmaker didn't claim he was adapting the book not remaking the movie. Copying the pool scene is a dead giveaway. I'm glad this movie seems to be tanking, this kind of laziness shouldn't be encouraged. I am lucky enough to live in Rochester, NY where the original has been put on the big screen three times already but most people have to see the doppelganger if they want to see it in the theater.
My ironic theory is, if the remake had been a totally Americanized reboot it would have made a shit-ton of money. -
David Zahir on Tue, 12th Oct 2010 10:57 am
I am so weary of people complaining about a movie they haven't seen, expressing expert opinions on a subject of which they by definition are totally ignorant.
With that cast and that director, I was hopeful. Having actually watched the film I was very impressed. This is indeed a re-adaptation of the novel, with some bits lifted from the first screenplay (written by the novelist). Its cultural setting ended up genuinely different–one remains Swedish and the other American in all sorts of interesting ways. The other big difference was that Eli's caretaker seemed to me a pedophile in love–and the novel showed I was right. LMI makes Abby's caretaker a predecessor of Owen's, a frankly more disturbing image. The bullying torture of Owen is the more vicious kind I associate with my own schooldays.
Actually, most of the so-called "shot-for-shot" scenes are from the book. One might as well call Mel Gibson's HAMLET a copy of Lawrence Olivier's because they both have this guy talking to a ghost, then a skull, and has a sword fight after the girl he loves goes mad and kills herself.
Good thing the movie only cost $20 million. After two weeks it has made almost half that–with foreign box office, DVD sales, etc. still to take into account. While I love both films, I must acknowledge that audiences get into moods about what to see.
Stina Chyn on Sat, 23rd Oct 2010 4:52 pm
I've seen both. I enjoyed the original a lot as well as the remake. But, the boy in the remake really got on my nerves.
Curtis on Thu, 16th Jun 2011 8:29 pm
I watched "Let the Right One In" last night and I have to say, for me personally, I like the remake " Let Me In" better. The original has a more developed story between the boy and girl, but the remake more accurately depicts what the girl is as well as more action. Both movies are good, but the second gets my vote.
Robc on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 3:16 am
Both films are fantastic. I'm more partial To Chloe Moretz. She's just to cute to ignore :p
Sadie on Tue, 29th Nov 2011 1:37 am
I saw "let Me In" in theaters and I loved it!! I also have it on Netflix now, so I've watched it again since then. although, I had no idea that it was a remake until last night when i turned on my tv and i realized i was basically watching the same movie but in subtitles. I turned on my Wii and started comparing the 2. I like the re-make better, maybe because I saw it first, but I think the effects were better and the Mom was less annoying in the re-make.
Andy on Fri, 9th Dec 2011 9:14 am
I'm from Sweden myself so I have heard plenty of good concerning "let the right one in" which is why I checking the Internet some concerning the movie before when I found this page. Unlike some of the superficial comments I seen around the web like "why see a remake of an already good movie" and such alike I actually plans to get both the original and the remake now. Most American remakes of various movies that I come across so far has ended up as hollow shells compared to the original, but from what I read here and at other places has me in high hopes concerning both version of the movie.
Marty L on Fri, 24th Feb 2012 6:24 pm
Great article here. Tough comparison between two fine movies. I like the way the remake streamlined the plot, but it really does lose some of the tenderness of the original. That comes from the chemistry of the two Swedish actors. Like the reviewer said, the LMI actors might be better, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's best for the viewer.
The novel is more disturbing than both versions, btw. Eli is actually a castrated boy. You can briefly see the scar in the original after her bloody shower. This is why Abby constantly says in the re-make that she's not a girl. Not because she's a supernatural vampire, but because she's a boy. And yes, the caretaker is a pedophile. In the novel she doesn't meet him when he's young, though. The original movie makes his character vague on purpose. I do like the re-make going more toward his role as Owen's predecessor.
I believe whichever version you saw first, you'll like more. Loved both. My fave's the original =).
Jade on Tue, 21st Aug 2012 9:55 am
Just finished watching Let me in and I have to admit it was quite good. But it wasn't different enough from the only two years old and praised Let the right one in. I just don't see any point in why they did this version when the first is so much better in every way and still very popular. I really hope people will watch the original first!
Sandra on Mon, 8th Oct 2012 11:32 pm
Has no one done they're research. The most important aspect of the book and original movie was that Eli was in fact a male vampire who was castrated and wears girls clothes. The remake didn't have this and i haven't seen an article yet that mentions it
Dennis on Fri, 29th Mar 2013 4:58 pm
I watched "Let Me In" first because I watched "The Road" and "Kick Ass" and loved Chloe and Kodi in each respectively. The itneraction between the two was amazing and when you put yourself in the shoes of each you can feel their pain, love, and joy. But it didn't stop there. Richard Jenkins was amazing and again you could feel him not wanting to kill but wanting to provide for Abby. As much as I felt for those three, I felt just as much for the main bully. It is easy to condemn a kid for picking on weaker ones but imagine what he is put through, not by a stranger but his own brother, and you can get some sense of why he bullies Owen. The kid had not fully "turned" as his brother did when you saw the remorse during the pool scene. Reeves did an excellant job.
I then watched "Let The Right One In" and loved it as well and even though there were similar scenes it didn't bother me because they were well done in both movies.
I then read the book and was not disappointed. The one thing that did disappoint me overall was they never touched deep enough on Eli/Abby's transformation. The Vampire genre today is all about how its all based on love and everyone sparkles but being a vampire is a curse and the scene described in the book would have shown that. I found out that a deleted scene from "Let Me In" touched on it but American audiences looked at it as too much of a rape of a 12 yr old and it was left out.
Either way loved both movies and the book.
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Alibaba's market dominance raises the same questions that all near-monopolies do, just like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, or Amazon. It's rather unfair to just assume that the Chinese government will seek rents from it and regulate it poorly. Particularly if it is getting into the provision of consumer credit, there are serious concerns that the Chinese government should address. This is a difficult problem for any government. Let's give them a chance before jumping all over them. Perhaps they'll surprise us. Certainly the American and European approach to regulation of these types of near-monopolies is far from perfect.
The Alibaba phenomena is the significant sign of the material economy crashing and dwindle.It is dangerous to let it grows.
One, you string of words don't really make a lot of sense.
Two, what is and how is the material economy crashing? E-commerce facilitates the transaction of usually physically goods via an online platform. It's still part of the "material economy".
Three, big box stores will still be around. I still shop at Target, Barnes and Noble, and sometimes even at Best Buy. I am among more digitally tuned in as many of my friends, but we still like going to physical stores and seeing the items.
Ben Lai is right. I am concerned too.
Yes, your second point is valid. Think a moment about your third point. What you described actually has a term attributed to it by product managers and marketing, "show rooming".
This is why it is a problem: Everyone who has any sense will do what you and your digitally tuned-in friends do, which is to see and test merchandise before purchasing it. I do that too, especially for costly or important purchases! Unfortunately, many people do that, then go online to buy the same product for slightly less money. So the retailers you mentioned, Target, B&N, Best Buy, maybe even my favorite Frye's Electronics, pay all the costs of physical stores and employees, yet don't close sales. Instead, customers make purchases online, where there aren't the same fixed costs.
Eventually, we will suffer for this foolishness. There will be few merchants remaining in the physical world. We will be at the mercy of a few online retailers e.g. Amazon, Staples. We will also have desolate communities whose local businesses have closed due to inability to compete with online merchants.
This isn't a future scenario that is unique to any one country. It is already manifesting in the U.S.A. It need not happen in China. I believe that was what Ben Lai was alluding to.
You either accept the change as a retailer or go the way of the dinosaur. The Brick & Mortar channel needs to identify and optimize where they have the competitive advantage over the pure eTailers. Focused on developing a fully integrated Omni-channel strategy that personalized the consumers experience with the retailers brands.
thanks for profiling the company which excites me more than any other - lets hope everyone in china values its potentially positive impacts, and why not worldwide youth too
Alibaba's latest addition of B2C e-commerce site TMall is trying to address the problem of fake products on Taobao, the previous C2C e-commerce site and Alibaba.com, the B2B site it has first started with. Only qualified Chinese companies and branches of western companies can set up online store on this platform, giving it more legitimacy requires for online marketplace. Many foreign brands have set up their online store on this platform including Microsoft. Combined with their payment solution, there's much more they can do.
Why would the Chinese Communist Party be "bound to be jealous of an outfit that has so much data on Chinese citizens"? Alibaba is a Chinese company that must comply with information requests of the Chinese government, so the Party already has ready access to all the data the company collects without having to deploy hackers. For the same reason, it may become harder for Alibaba to expand overseas, unless and until China strengthens its protection of individual privacy and rule of the law.
"Alibaba is a Chinese company that must comply with information requests of the Chinese government, so the Party already has ready access to all the data the company collects without having to deploy hackers."
I think this is exactly why it will be hard for them to grow overseas. There are not many people, even within China, that would be willing to accept this, if they had a choice.
CCHO8: "Why would the Chinese Communist Party be "bound to be jealous of an outfit that has so much data on Chinese citizens"? Alibaba is a Chinese company that must comply with information requests of the Chinese government, so the Party already has ready access to all the data the company collects without having to deploy hackers."
Maybe Party members would be concerned about an entity outside their direct control having potentially compromising data about themselves
Possibly. But the Party in recent years has already worked hard to install cells in nearly all the big companies operating in China, whether publicly or privately owned, thus forestalling any possibility that one of such big companies can move directly against the Party's interests. In addition, Alibaba has done very well in China while operating within the rules set forth by the Party, and it surely knows that any company that moves directly against the Party will incurr the wrath of both the Party and its own shareholders (for breaches of fiduciary duties).
Why not? It can be quite a great company, it already has all all the trade secrets Chinese Govt or Chinese nationals can steal from other companies; the base market is hermetically sealed for competition and rest of world is ready to put its blinkers on while they invite fox into the hen-house.
This completely false. People need to stop making really false accusations based on broad strokes. Ebay is in China and actually bought a local company that was ahead of Alibaba's Taobao (C2C) fledgling business at the time.
I can't quite remember the name of the online company, but read it in a HBS case. The whole point was Ebay had full access and overspend for the company but lost out to Alibaba's execution and China strategy.
Alipay is similar to PayPal in some respect. But the escrow addition is a very important feature in the e-commerce in China and other developing markets without as much trust as in U.S. It is actually very smart and innovative.
I don't profess to know who you are or what you do. But I believe it's important to actually understand competitors and shifting competitive landscapes instead of still viewing the world with blinders on, making false and broad-stroked generalizations.
In certain industries every country has "strategic/security" constraints. U.S. has them around ports, teleco, and some other. China just has more. Actually, India, Russia, and South Korea has much more rings. These are just countries that I actually know some things about, I'm sure there are more. They [India, Russia, S. Korea] are just smaller economies and do not affect as much and thus for NOW get less attention.
People actually have given you "recommends". Wow, ignorance spreading is a good thing apparently.
A firm run by / run under aegis of a mafia state cannot be a 'respected' company. US executives are scared of being slapped with a lawsuit lest they treat Chinese employees equally; otherwise why is it that only Chinese nationals are more likely to be caught with firms manuals on airports, stealing IPR et al.
A normal cloak & dagger corporate games are still acceptable. Chinese firms have no problem getting down to murder! Great firm, the path breakers Chinese in this field are Snakeheads, and now Huewai is joining them.
Hahaha...I saw all many dead bodies of US executives all over the streets in China, tortured and killed!
That happens in China's satellite states like Singapore...
Yes, it is a big conspiracy with the multi-nationals sending streams of expats, the Singapore government related entities hiring more still to Singapore. I understand the US government provides the Singaporean government with advance weapons to kill the US executives. The anti-communist stance all those years was just a front.
Those not employed by these entities are brainwashed to flood to Singapore with the promise of opportunities, sunny weather and low crime rates. Little do they know they will be locked in dark rooms, tortured, killed and tossed on to the streets.
How's that Vinny K? Hahaha!
You response start dot on your Beijing office hours. Try to do better Mr $.05.
Singaporeans have been the economic whores of China & US as Pakistanis are the diplomatic ones.
Changing subjects? I have not visited Beijing for some 9 months and it was almost 10:30am Beijing time an hour ago. I wish my office hours start at 10:30am!
So Singapore, a satellite state of China and economic whore of the US, is murdering US executives, with weapons supplied by the US...hmmm...
I hope others find this equally amusing...hahaha!
Whatever! I understand that you have to earn your nickels the hard way.
Anyhow what else can be expected from robots bottle fed on CCP propaganda & trying to see the word from behind the great firewall. NYT/CNN all barred in PRC?
If Singapore is not another mafia state run by Lee family; why is it that big % of Singaporeans are voting with their feet?
Why should I complain, my 2.99% mortgage is paid for by Chinese savers who think that their MBS issued by BofA are worth shit?
So calling names now. I'm a robot fed on propaganda. Yes, whatever!
My company goes through vpn so I'm never have to worry about the firewall when I travel to China and my colleague's apartment has CNN. His office also receives the WSJ and NYT.
Interesting that a mafia state allows its people to vote against it...hmmm...
Ah! So you have been whining! Ok, can't entertain you anymore!
1. Finally coming around to acknowledging your location, Mr $.05.
2. The only organization with firewall free access is the 5 center's; That will come out in few more exchanges.
Lets define Mafia state-
1. Paradise- Criminal hospitality, Money laundering & weapons smuggling
2. Single family controlling most top positions in Govt. & Public Sector
Define (Chinese) Democracy-
1. Winning party getting 99% seats since inception
2. All opposition candidates bankrupt or in jail
3. Freedom of expression- naaah
What's up with this egotistical idea of being "most valuable company"? Why so much obsession with it, especially in TE articles?
a stroke of genius here....?possibly?..egotistical to boast and up the free market value..the state owned company is already responsible for 60% of all parcels in mainland china today means "MORE CONTROL"..for the fith world bikes/messangers/whalers will be responsible for all medicines/food/real neccisity' to distribute to it's citizens. The obsession is the formula/process was pitched/created by well connected englishmen to be able to throw around enough $$ that even TE is made to "tow the line"...
I am eager to hand my master data over to chinese commies. bring it on.
China's e-business policy has been an extremely interesting topic to follow: first, a worldwide benchmark done for the best-in-class, followed by immediate implementation of online platforms that shortly became independent from the reference models used during their creation.
The era of direct copy of what was being done in the west gave birth to very successful online framework; companies like Alibaba are now becoming the reference models to other Asian countries and to the West.
Come on, alibaba! Mr. Ma has realised his dream of "there's no difficult trade......"
Alibaba will surely change China economically. Last year (2012)I personally brought nearly 15000$(USD) on Taobao, 3000$ on Tmall, 4000$ on 360buy, 5500$ on Suning, 1000$ on Amazon.cn(Chinese version), nearly 70% of my shopping is on-line and many of my friends are the same.
I cannot agree that the Chinese government will one day clip the wing of Alibaba or the threat to Alibaba comes from home. As you can see, China is now becoming more and more capitalism who should allow the existence of extraordinary large company like Tencent and Alibaba. Meanwhile the idea of domestic enterprise (its own brand) should be more impressive to the world, which is also a business card of China, the gradually grown-up giant. Instead, the company will get support from government and start its voyage to world market one day. Let's see, maybe some day, Ebay or even bigger E-commerce behemoth will be acquired by Alibaba.
Indeed opportunity always stays with challenge. I believe the threat comes from international market. Alibaba will one day face some sanction from US government because of the trade protection policy.
China is a free market economy... I heard them say so in Beijing so it must be true.
Alibaba has succeeded in part because it has little or no competition from anyone else, namely foreign companies.
I'm sure developed economies will welcome it onto their free internet with open arms, allowing it to compete fairly with the likes of Amazon, while China continues to prevent said companies from taking advantage of the growing Chinese market.
Prepare to surrender! (Your personal data)
Please check your facts: Amazon is operating in China and a colleague of mine in Shanghai went to work for them. Having used Alibaba (Taobao) I must say it is a better merchandised website with a bigger range and is better tailored to Chinese customers than Amazon. That's why it beating Amazon hands down.
This is over simplified. The fact is that e-commerce giants as ebay and amazon had competed and been edged out.
Most foreign competitors forget to leave their own culture at home when competing in the Market with Chinese characteristics.
The economist seems quite excited about the growth and potential of Alibaba, but why would a case against it for anti-trust not be appropriate? Especially when grand claims of a trillion dollars in commerce are thrown out- how can that not be an overwhelming dominance of an industry? Even in the US, there is Ebay and Amazon, among others, that have eachother as competition. If you look at retailers (business to consumer) the top ranks are Amazon, Staples (didja see that coming?), Apple, Walmart, and Dell, [http://www.internetretailer.com/top500/list/] all of which bring in over $4 billion in online sales, with Amazon at almost $50 billion.
I am not disagreeing with you regarding market dominance and monopoly power concerns. Who would enforce anti-trust in this situation though? China is a sovereign nation. I suppose there is the World Trade Organization, but that is very conjectural...
In the U.S.A., there is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. I wonder sometimes lately about its applicability to Amazon. Ebay isn't quite an Amazon competitor, I don't believe. They sell different products; Ebay: used/ collectible versus Amazon: new or used, rarely collectibles. They sell them differently; Ebay: auction versus Amazon: e-commerce equivalent of retail. In the U.S.A., where Amazon is domiciled, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act *can* be enforced. It isn't though.
Maybe Alibaba will provide some competition to the small number of existing e-commerce businesses. I don't know how the People's Republic of China is going to run an e-commerce company while continuing to keep the yuan a fixed, not floating-rate currency, pegged to the $US.
* "Small number of existing e-commerce businesses" isn't the best way to express that! There seems to be a two-tier marketplace, with a small number of very large companies (Amazon, Ebay, Staples) providing what seems to be the bulk of online sales. It isn't as easy to measure the total volume of revenue from the second tier of many, many small online merchants.
I know that Alibaba is within China's jurisdiction and don't presume that the US has any authority to impose any laws within China, but if they ever grew so dominant in the US the US laws can take hold just as Microsoft can be punished for monopolistic behavior in Europe.
And I understand the different sub-markets for e-commerce in the US, and that Ebay and Amazon are apples and oranges, but Alibaba seems to be King Fruit in China, dominating many subcategories and moving into others (microfinance and such). Just thought I'd bring up the question of how dominating would China let a company be before taking any remedial action.
By encouraging intense price competition, Taobao may be helping to help inflation tame in China. However, it may also be hindering formation of national brands that can enjoy strong profit margins. In any case, would agree that Alibaba has a huge role in how China's economy develops - much more significant than the roles that Amazon or eBay play in how the US economy changes.
Actually, it's part of most people's life now. Many enjoying shopping on Taobao without all the walking and that. And there's even a Taobao-style language (in which people always address you "My Dear"---Chinese people normally don't do that, but is doing it because the sellers on Taobao always call the buyer that). Don't know it's good or bad---Alibaba's bing huge and all, yet.
Is alibaba owned by Norinco (chinese military) like so many of their other "private" companies? #chinabigfail
If AliBaba can find ways to part company with the 40+ thieving international banksters, I think more consumers will redoubtably benefit by shopping in the hoard of treasures.
Studying e-commerce and I feel that this mode of business is becoming the most popular with unbelievable high speed in China!
Studying e-commerce and I feel that this mode of business is becoming the most popular with unbelievable high speed in China!
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"It's not the usual suspects coming together on something like this, and that tells you something about Qaddafi and Libya and the context in which this crisis is occurring," says John Entelis, director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Fordham University in New York.
Qaddafi has burned many bridges over the years to countries that might have otherwise sympathized with him, Professor Entelis says. But the context of upheaval across the Middle East is also something General Assembly members realize they cannot disregard, he adds.
"Historically, and even toward the most outrageous acts by member states, third-world countries have been very cautious about taking a position that sometime down the road might be directed at them," he says. "But this is egregious – even for Qaddafi, who has managed to annoy and alienate so many people for a long time. And then there is the reality that 'the whole world is watching,' and these countries really do want [the UN] to be relevant and listened to."
The resolution to suspend Libya from the HRC had 72 co-sponsors – suggesting broad disapproval of Qaddafi's violence against his own people. Still, the move led some human rights advocates to question the General Assembly's consistency.


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Dallas, TX (Sports Network) - Josh Howard had 24 points and 10 rebounds and the Dallas Mavericks used a balanced attack in a 113-98 rout of the New Jersey Nets from the American Airlines Center.
Jason Kidd and Dirk Nowitzki scored 23 points each with the former handing out a game-high 10 assists and the latter pulling down nine boards for Dallas, which finished off a four-game homestand 3-1.
"Jason Kidd all year long has stepped up his scoring when we've needed it. Tonight, he gave it to us from start to finish and had a great floor game. He was just tremendous at both ends," Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle said.
Antoine Wright chipped in 20 points and hit all four of his three-point attempts in the win.
Former Maverick Devin Harris led the way with 18 points for New Jersey, which lost its fourth in a row following a season-best four-game win streak.
Harris, traded by the Mavericks to New Jersey as part of last February's eight-player deal that sent Kidd to Dallas, leads the Nets with an average of 21.5 points per game but was coming off a 10-point, 4-of-13 shooting performance in Tuesday's loss to Houston.
"Both teams are moving in the right direction. They're starting to do the things they need to do, obviously we're moving forward," Harris said of last year's trade. "I don't think one team got one end of a better trade or not. I think both players are solid. Obviously J-Kidd is a Hall of Famer -- I'm up and coming, so I think both teams are moving in the right direction."
Vince Carter, the subject of recent trade rumors with Thursday's deadline looming, had 15 points on 7-of-21 shooting with each of his points coming in the first half.
Jarvis Hayes also scored 15 and Brook Lopez logged 16 points and a team-high seven rebounds for the Nets, who are without a win over the last nine trips to Dallas in this series. New Jersey has not won in Dallas since March 2, 2000.
The teams played to a 28-all tie over the opening 12 minutes and New Jersey emerged on top 55-52 at the break behind 15 first-half points from Carter. Nowitzki led the hosts with 16 points, with his layup and two free throws closing out the second quarter for Dallas.
The Mavs took over the game in the third quarter as Kidd's three-pointer put the hosts in front 60-59 with 8 1/2 minutes left in the frame and sparked a 35-11 run that closed out the quarter.
Kidd hit a pair of threes and led the way with 11 points on the surge while Wright sank a pair from beyond the arc en route to 13 points in the stanza as Dallas took a 92-70 advantage into the fourth.
"Jason (Kidd), Antoine (Wright) and Josh (Howard) probably combined for virtually all of those 40," Nets head coach Lawrence Frank said of Dallas' third-quarter, 40-point performance. "And we couldn't make shots, and it put us in obviously a huge hole in a 40-15 third quarter."
New Jersey came out with the hot hand early in the final frame but Dallas kept pace and back-to-back layups by Nowitzki and Jose Barea had the hosts still holding a 20-point advantage, 102-82, with just over eight minutes left.
A quick 8-0 spurt was orchestrated by Keyon Dooling, who scored six of the points and capped things with a three-ball to pull the Nets within 12 but with only 3:40 to play and layups by Howard and Barea helped put any comeback out of reach.
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